Mya Padmore
PRESIDENT
An accomplished communications and marketing executive, Mya Padmore is a natural leader in innovation, creativity, and specialized planning. With more than 10 years in the public relations and marketing industry, Mya has represented leading corporations in the diverse fields of broadcast, entertainment, and international business, to name a few. Her unique global expertise in marketing, communications, organization, planning, and business development stems from a diverse ethnic and cultural background, and her years spent internationally on four continents. Mya infuses her work with an unprecedented work ethic and inspiring ideas, whether she is conceiving marketing plans, managing key relationships, developing strategic partnerships, or producing live shows, charity events, or press campaigns. Mya began her career while attending university and working for a local advertising agency in Atlanta, Georgia. In 1998, she graduated from Georgia State University with a business degree in international marketing and a minor in music industry management. She worked with several international dot com companies following graduation, but her passion for music landed her a job with Black Entertainment Television (BET) in London, England, where she became the international marketing and public relations manager.
There she gained exceptional experience in entertainment, production, event planning, marketing and PR throughout global markets such as France, Germany, the Netherlands, the Middle East, and Africa. Shaped by life abroad, Mya has always recognized the urgency for social change around the world, especially in Africa. Her drive to help foster such transformation, coupled with her skills in the arts, culture, and both traditional and new media, was the springboard to the Coca Cola Ebony Festival. Conceived and executed by Mya in 2004, the three-day pan African music festival set off on historic GorÊe Island in Dakar, Senegal. Under Mya's leadership as founder and executive co-director, she developed a much-needed AIDS awareness campaign with UNAIDS and with the Ministry of Youth in Senegal, as well as obtained sponsorship support and strategic partnerships with a monetary value of more than 1 million USD. As founder of Sting Communications, Mya aspires to empower organizations and individuals in strengthening the overall value of their product, service, and image by offering result-oriented methodical marketing and communications services—without sacrificing innovation and creativity. She serves her clients' needs with unmatched customer relations and high-quality consulting. Her natural talents also include make-up art, which she honed, along with her image consulting skills at the Yarin Shahaf International School of Make-Up in Tel Aviv, Israel. She is fluent in Hebrew and English, and speaks conversational French. Mya currently resides in Atlanta, Georgia where this globetrotting, tech-savvy, business-minded phenomenon continues to share her talent in countries all over the world.